Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been spoken for. One of the most hotly pursued actresses this pilot season has been tapped as the lead of ABC‘s drama pilot Exposed, from writer Charles Randolph, Peter Traugott’s TBD Entertainment, Sweden-based Yellow Bird Entertainment and Universal TV. Based on the best-selling Swedish novels by Liza Marklund, Exposed centers on Anna (Winstead), an investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, including making questionable alliances. Winstead turned down some half-dozen pilot offers this season before settling on Exposed. The actress, repped by WME and Anonymous Content, has been straddling the indie and mainstream feature worlds with roles in indies like the 2012 Smashed, which landed her an Indie Spirit nomination, and in such big-budget movies as A Good Day To Die Hard and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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Worked with her recently. Quality actress, quality person. Dedicated, fearless, genuine. I hope it’s a huge success. She will rock it.

Markus Sarén • on Mar 11, 2014 6:02 am

What did you work with her on and how?

McGee22 • on Mar 10, 2014 9:24 pm

Yeah put me down for this pilot ! Pleasee let this one make it. This cast is so good and I love the books. Abc don’t let this one slip thru your fingers.

i like turtles • on Mar 10, 2014 9:30 pm

and this just confirms that this god-awful actress’ career has finally come to an end LOL!, she will finally stop ruining beloved classics like john carpenter’s the thing, die hard and the original black christmas with her horrible acting-not to mention all of her movies are box-office flops as well, so chances are this stupid show wont get past pilot phase- at last justice has been served. bye bye, mary winstead, dont let the door hit yo ar$e on the way out ROFL!!

• on Mar 12, 2014 7:28 pm

what the **** is wrong w you?

Trent • on Mar 10, 2014 9:54 pm

HAIL MARY!

dreebee • on Mar 10, 2014 10:53 pm

sorry, never heard of her. won’t be watching this one.

Jen • on Mar 11, 2014 1:41 am

Such an overrated bore of an actress. Outside of Smashed, she hasn’t done anything worthwhile. Her monotone voice is enough to put you to sleep.

dryedmangoez • on Mar 11, 2014 1:53 am

I remember when she was just the original Jessica Bennett on NBC’s “Passions”. Now she’s an acclaimed and sought after star. So awesome to see.

Garry • on Mar 11, 2014 4:55 am

Does this mean that Quarry on Cinemax is dead? I haven’t read anything about it for a long time, and was looking forward to it.

INterested Observer • on Mar 11, 2014 5:42 am

One of the most poorly managed careers of the last ten years. With the right guidance MEW could have become a major movie lead, but every big swing she and her team took turned into a disaster. Whoever reads this woman’s scripts for her needs to be fired ASAP.

Informed observer • on Mar 11, 2014 10:03 am

have you READ this script? I think that was the right decision for her. It is really good and with her and the team behind this one it could very well be the thing that gets her the recognition that she deserves.